When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box?

She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...

I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.